Did you know that most of the discarded garbage ends up in the oceans, forming garbage patches? Environmentalists from the ...

Without fanfare, The Ocean Cleanup recently completed its 100th trawl of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, removing almost one million pounds of plastic refuse from the area since launching its ...

To put this into a global perspective, the first research cruise Rochman ever did was out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. That’s roughly 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers) from land. During her time ...

PREVIOUS STORY: Large sail boat sinks in Oakland Estuary It's an old research vessel that once set sail for the Great Pacific Garbage patch, collecting data to help understand our oceans.

The group bought the boat to conduct the Kaisei Project, a month-long expedition in 2009 to survey and study the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge mass of floating plastic in the ocean.

Since acquiring the ship around 2001, Ocean Voyages has taken it on three separate expeditions in 2009, 2011 and 2012 to monitor and report on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. In that vast and growing ...

In the ocean, debris tends to congregate in rotating currents called gyres, which have formed startling mounds of floating trash, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. More recently ...

Helga Huntley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Science & Mathematics at Rowan University, has co-authored a ...

The Pacific Northwest is being taken for a ride ... New research shows subsidence following the great quake could double, or even triple, the number of people and properties exposed to ...